14. Expropriation of land:

Take notice that by virtue of The Health Act, and the regulations made thereunder, possession has been taken (or obtained, as the case may be) of the following land (or building, as the case may be), namely:

And further take notice that such land (or building) will be occupied and used for the purpose of the said Act and regulations, from and after the date hereof, for period of or such other time as may in the discretion

of the undersigned be necessary.

16. Precautions to be taken when removing a patient suffering from a contagious disease:

Remove all clothing, linen, coverings or other effects of the patient and replace them by others which have not been used since the beginning of his illness, or which have not remained in the room in which he has been isolated unless, however, such clothing, linen, coverings or other effects, after having been used by the patient or having remained in his room, have been disinfected in the manner described in schedule 4.

Provide the patient with rags for receiving his expectorations or evacuations during the transport and burn these rags or disinfect them according to the method described in schedule 4.

1907

CHAPTER 13.

An Act respecting the Registration of Births, Marriages and

Deaths.

(Assented to March 15, 1907.)

HIS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the

Legislative Assembly of the Province of Alberta, enacts as follows:

SHORT TITLE.

1. This Act may be cited as

The Vital Statistics Act."

Short title

INTERPRETATION.

2. In this Act unless the context otherwise requires:

1. The expression "Minister" means that member of the Minister Executive Council administering this Act;

2. The expression "Department means that department Department presided over by the minister administering this Act;

3. The expression "Occupier" where used in the fourteenth occupier and eighteenth sections of this Act shall be construed to include the governor, master, warden, keeper, superintendent or other officer in charge of a gaol, prison, penitentiary, lunatic asylum, hospital, reformatory, immigration building or other public or private charitable institution;

4. The expression "Registrar" means any person duly ap- Registrar pointed under the provisions of this Act.

ADMINISTRATION.

by the Minister

3. The Lieutenant Governor in Council may direct this Act Administration to be administered by any member of the Executive Council of Agriculture by name or otherwise; and in the absence of any such direction, the Act shall be administered by the Minister of Agriculture.

INSPECTOR OF VITAL STATISTICS.

inspector

4. The Lieutenant Governor in Council may appoint an Appointment of inspector of vital statistics whose duties shall be prescribed

by the minister.

REGISTRARS.

Appointment

of registrars

Forms to be supplied by the department

Cost of forms, etc., defrayed out of general revenue fund

Forms, registers, etc., to be delivered to successor in office

Register to be

rars

5. For the purpose of this Act the minister may appoint any person whom he may think fit to be registrar of vital statistics.

6. The department shall supply the registrars with the blank forms and registers necessary for the discharge of the duties herein imposed upon them; and it shall be the duty of such registrars to apply to the department for the issue of such blank forms and registers whenever they may require

them.

(2) The cost and expenses of such forms and registers and the expenses attendant upon the distribution thereof shall be paid out of the general revenue fund of the province.

7. In case of the termination of the appointment of any registrar by death, resignation or otherwise, all such forms and other matters pertaining to his duties under this Act or in his possession or that of his representative shall forthwith be delivered to his successor in office.

8. Every registrar shall keep a register, the form of which kept by regist- shall be prescribed by the minister, of all births, marriages and deaths duly certified by him in the manner required by section 30 of this Act.

Registrar's fees

Secretaries of municipalities

9. Each registrar shall receive a fee to be paid out of the general revenue fund of the province of twenty-five cents for each birth, marriage or death reported to him and duly returned to the department as herein provided.

POPULATION STATISTICS.

10. Secretaries of municipalities, villages and local imto make return provement districts shall make a return to the department on or before the third day of September in each year, giving the approximate number of people resident in their respective municipalities, villages and local improvement districts on the thirtieth day of June in that year, and such return shall be in the form prescribed by the minister.

Clergymen et al to keep registers

CHURCH NOTICES.

11. Every clergyman, minister or other person authorized by law to baptize or perform the ceremony of marriage or conduct funeral services shall keep registers in such form as may from time to time be determined by the minister, showing the persons whom he baptizes or marries or who die within his cure or congregation, or over whose bodies he may have conducted funeral services.

inspect registers

(2) The registers mentioned in this section shall be open to Registrars may inspection at any reasonable hour by registrars.

Who shall fur

12. Any church or congregation shall, on demand and at nish registers the expense of such church or congregation, furnish from time to time to the ministers, clergymen or other persons exercising the functions of their ministry in such church or congregation, the registers required by the preceding section.

registers

(2) Such registers shall be the property of the church or Property in congregation to which the minister, clergyman or other person performing the ceremony belongs at the time of the first baptism or marriage entry or death which he records therein, and shall thereafter be kept as records in such church or, in case of the abandonment of the church, the registers shall be filed with the department.

13. Executive bodies of all religious denominations shall Executive bodies to notify notify the department of the appointment to any church er department cure in the province of all clergymen, ministers or other persons authorized to perform the marriage ceremony or rite of baptism, or to conduct funeral service therein.

REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS.

required to give

births

14. The father of any child born in this province, or in the Persons case of his death or absence, the mother, or in the case of the particulars of death or inability of both parents, any person standing in the place of the parents, or if there is no such person, then the occupier of the house or tenement in which to his knowledge the child was born, or the medical practitioner or nurse present at the birth, shall, within one month from the date of the birth, give notice thereof to the registrar whose post office is nearest to the place at which the birth occurred, giving as far as possible the particulars required in form A in the schedule to this Act, together with such additional information as may from time to time be required by the minister.

illegitimate

15. In registering the birth of an illegitimate child, it shall Registration not be lawful for the name of any person to be entered as the children father unless at the joint request of the mother and the person acknowledging himself to be the father; and in all cases of the registration of the birth of illegitimate children the registrar shall write the word "Illegitimate" in the column set apart for the name of the child and immediately under the name, if any.

inserting name

ration

16. When the birth of any child has been registered and Altering or the name, if any, by which it was registered has been altered, after registor if it was registered without a name, when a name is given to it, the parent or guardian of the child or other person procuring such name to be altered or given, may within ten years

next after the date of the birth, deliver to the department a certificate signed by the clergyman or other person who performed the rite of baptism upon which the name was given or altered, or if the child is not baptized signed by the father, mother, or guardian of the child or other person procuring the name of the child to be given or altered; and the necessary alterations shall be made in the margin of the form containing the original entry without making any alteration in the original entry.

Officiating clergymen et al to report marriages

REGISTRATION OF MARRIAGES.

17. Every clergyman, minister or other person authorized by law to celebrate marriages shall be required to report every marriage he celebrates to the registrar whose post office is nearest the place at which the marriage is celebrated, within one month from the date of the marriage with the particulars required by form B in the schedule to this Act, together with such additional information as may from time to time be required by the minister; and in order to better enable the said clergyman, minister or other person to make the report as aforesaid, he shall be furnished on demand by any registrar with blank forms containing the particulars required by the said form B.

Who shall register deaths

Certificate of registration required

Clergymen to register death if required

REGISTRATION OF DEATHS.

18. The occupier of a house or tenement in which a death takes place or, if the occupier is the person who has died, then some one of the persons residing in the house in which the death took place, or if the death has not taken place within a house, then any person at the death or having any knowledge of the circumstances attending the same or the coroner who attended any inquest held on the body of such person shall, before the interment of the body, supply to the registrar whose post office is nearest the place at which the death occurred according to his or her knowledge or belief, all the particulars required to be registered, touching such death, according to form C in the schedule to this Act, together with such additional information as may from time to time be required by the minister.

19. Every registrar shall, immediately upon registering any death or as soon thereafter as he is required to do so, without fee or reward, deliver to any person requiring the same for the purpose of burial a certificate according to form D in the schedule to this Act, stating that the particulars of such death have been duly registered.

20. Every clergyman, minister or other person who buries or performs any funeral or religious service for the burial of any dead body, unless he has received a certificate under the